By Nick Piecoro | azcentral sports
Torey Lovullo became the third consecutive Diamondbacks manager to lead his team to the postseason then be rewarded with the National League Manager of the Year award, winning rather easily in voting results announced Tuesday afternoon.
Lovullo, whose Diamondbacks won 93 games and advanced to the NL division series in his first year on the job, received 18 of 30 first-place votes from the Baseball Writers Association of America.
“It’s an organizational thing is how I’m viewing it,” Lovullo said during a press conference at Chase Field on Tuesday evening. “Without ownership as strong as it is, without the front office and the relationship I have with them, without the coaches and the players, I’m not sitting here. A lot goes on behind the scenes that nobody knows about. The final piece of that whole puzzle is the players go out and perform at the level they do, and that’s why I’m sitting here today.”
